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You’re a mother, Ma. You’re also a monster. But so am I —which is why I can’t turn away from you. Which is why I have taken god’s loneliest creation and put you inside it.
When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?
I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn’t trying to make a sentence —I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.
Because tenderness depends on how little the world touches you.
To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones..
I’m not with you because I’m at war with everything but you.
Sometimes, when I’m careless, I think survival is easy: you just keep moving forward with what you have, or what’s left of what you were given, until something changes—or you realize, at last, that you can change without disappearing, that all you had to do was wait until the storm passes you over and you find that—yes—your name is still attached to a living thing.
Sometimes I don’t know what or who we are. Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was.
Whether we want to or not, we are traveling in a spiral, we are creating something new from what is gone.
If we are lucky, the end of the sentence is where we might begin. If we are lucky, something is passed on, another alphabet written in the blood, sinew, and neuron; ancestors charging their kin with the silent propulsion to fly south, to turn toward the place in the narrative no one was meant to outlast.
I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn't trying to make a sentence-- I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.
They say every snowflake is different—but the blizzard, it covers us all the same.
Sayfa 174
They say a song can be a bridge, Ma. But I say it's also the ground we stand on. And maybe we sing to keep ourselves from falling. Maybe we sing to keep ourselves.
Sayfa 125
Salat al-fajr: a prayer before sunrise. “Whoever prays the dawn prayer in congregation,” said the Prophet Muhammad, “it is as if he had prayed the whole night long.”
Sayfa 178 - :”
What is a country but a borderless sentence, a life?